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Your Momma’s So Skinny

Who doesn’t remember the “Your momma’s so skinny…” and the “Your momma’s so fat…” jokes from grade school? Some of them were funny, some of them not so much. (I’m pretty sure there might be some political correctness issues here but indulge me.) I’ve been thinking of one of them in particular as of late:

Your momma’s so skinny she has to run around in the shower just to get wet.

Why would I be remembering this particular joke from childhood? This story actually starts when we last moved. For the first few weeks I would never have enough hot water to take even a quick shower. Also the pipes squeal something terrible and the water pressure wasn’t the greatest. The hot water issue we were able to take care of: one of the elements in our hot water heater was out. So we were left with squealing pipes and less than desirable water pressure, though it was almost decent.

Except for the past few weeks. Some days I get lucky and I have amazing water pressure, but those days are becoming fewer and farther between. Now it seems that I’m lucky to get enough water pressure for the water to even get to the shower head. It has gotten so bad that I now have to ‘run around in the shower to get wet.’ Not because I’m the size of a toothpick but because the water barely makes it a foot past the shower wall, if that much. Good water pressure in the shower is definitely at the top of my ‘want’ list for a new apartment.

A Bit of Nostalgia

So much has changed since I last had an active blog (website… thing). What do I remember most about before I left? Vexels and celebrity layouts were all the rage. (I still can’t believe that the term vexel has actually become an accepted term.) Anyone who had visitor content on their page had stuff like “Domain Name Ideas” or “Free celebrity PSDs.” Let’s not forget tutorials. About pages contained extensive lists of likes and dislikes with items like “nice people, celebrity so-and-so, band such-and-such” falling under the ‘like’ category and “thieves, mean people, etc” falling under the ‘dislike’ category.

CSS and valid coding were far from the focus of most personal sites. External stylesheets? What are those? Heck, some people still flaunted the fact that they did everything with tables. Sites were still designed to “look best in IE6.”

How could I forget the portfolio sites? Everyone thought that they’d be able to strike it rich by throwing up a ‘design portfolio’ and offering custom layouts for $10 a pop. Copyright was hardly an issue when it came to the images that they used in their layouts. I guess I could also toss in the myriad of ‘hosting companies’ that people started off of their reseller accounts.

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